SolSmart Webinar: Decision Support Tools for Local Solar Planning & Deployment

The latest in SolSmart’s popular webinar series, this June 2019 presentation provides an overview of publicly available tools that local governments can use to plan for and deploy solar energy projects. These tools, largely developed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), allow local government staff to 1) better understand their community’s solar resource potential; 2) explore the economics of developing solar and storage projects within their communities; and 3) plan and develop policy to incentivize solar. This webinar can empower local government staff to tackle SolSmart criteria: